With a less-than-favorable outcome facing America in Iraq, President George Bush would like to leave office with a "success" he can point to in that region. Think of the last days of Bill Clinton's presidency and similar pressures on Israel to give away the store for

Up until now, the Holocaust-denying Abbas repeats some sweet talk.

promises of Arab "good behavior."


Israel is under enormous pressure to again play along with this dangerous game and to attend a fall summit to resurrect the Roadmap. Israel has agreed to release Arab prisoners (who should never have been taken alive in the first place) to Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas. They are wannabes who "just" maimed instead of murdered. Israel also agreed to grant amnesty to others of the same ilk if they simply pledged to be good. As the Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick pointed out, Arabs are laughing their behinds off at this.


But funny, it's not, especially since Israel's alleged "best friend," America, has pressured it to act in this suicidal way. Israel must refuse to participate at this time. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his even worse, Condoleezza Rice-derriere-kissing Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, must get the boot before Israel attends such a meeting.


When such things as "contiguity " of that proposed additional Arab state come up, Israel must have leaders who will insist that Israel's own contiguity must not suffer to create this. The desires of Arab state #22 must not take precedence over the security of the Jews' sole, tiny, resurrected nation.


Despite Secretary of State Rice's recent pre-summit call for a Judenrein Judea, Israel's new leaders must insist upon the meaningful territorial compromises it is entitled to under UN Resolution 242. The latter called for "secure and recognized borders" to replace Israel's 1949, nine-mile wide armistice-line existence. President Ronald Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, and others supported this, as did all of 242's architects, such as Britain's Lord Caradon and America's Eugene Rostow. At one time, Mr. Bush seemed to understand as well, commenting that some Texan driveways were bigger than Israel's width.


While Israel's goal won't be to rule millions of Arabs, any territorial compromise worth the paper it's written on will see some additional Arabs living within the Jewish State's new, real borders the same way scores of millions of non-Arab Kurds, Berbers, Copts, Black Africans, etc. live in "Arab" states. If Arabs disapprove, they may move to their new, second state in Palestine.


Israel must come to the summit with demands of its own - being proactive instead of reactive. So far, Olmert & Co. have simply caved in to one demand after another in the "Fatah good cop vs. Hamas bad cop" games. The first thing any Israeli Prime Minister must insist upon is that the days of Arab hudnas - temporary ceasefires - are over. Any more concrete concessions must be accompanied by a treaty of peace in return. This must include the real revision of Fatah's PLO Charter, which calls for Israel's destruction. Textbooks, maps, imams, and such that show no Israel or call for its destruction must be replaced by those which lay the groundwork for true peace.


If Fatah and Abbas are different from Hamas in something beyond merely their admitted Trojan Horse, destruction-in-stages tactics for Israel's demise, then it's time that they actually prove it. The time for allowing Arab excuses to continue murder and attempted murder of Jews has to end. What other nation would demand less?


Israel must insist upon recognized casus belli between the two nations. One of these must be that both take responsibility for preventing aggression being launched against the other from their respective territories. Certainly, America would not tolerate terror of its citizens by folks based in Canada or Mexico. Would Washington settle for "we're too weak (wink, wink) to stop it?" If a state can't control such things, it either has no right to statehood or no right to complain when the victim does all in its power to stop the terror itself. Despite the American State Department's all-too-frequent line, there is no "moral equivalence" between those who attack and those who defend.


Let's face some obvious, if inconvenient, facts. There really is no room between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River for another state. But, if President Bush insists that yet another Arab one pop up there - in addition to the state Arabs already have east of the river, on some 77% of the original 1920 Palestine Mandate (named Jordan) - then its birth must cause Israel the least amount of risk as possible. Given this, far more than lip service is required to grant an extremely vulnerable Israel the security any other nation would demand. Yet, that's about all Arabs have really been asked to do up until now.


Israel must next tell Arabs to forget about their demand to swamp Israel with millions of allegedly returning jihadi refugees. None. Zilch. Nada. More Jews fled "Arab " countries than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction due to the fighting the Arabs started.


Up until now, the Holocaust-denying Abbas repeats some sweet talk (although he ran on a platform for Israel‘s destruction, but by "more acceptable" means), and Jews are expected to say "Amen!" Even when Abbas has condemned Arabs blowing up buses and such, he did so only because the attack hurt the Arab cause. Regardless of what he really means by such behavior, his past history as Arafat's close associate certainly is a cause for concern.


Until Abbas and Fatah announce clearly that they fully recognize Israel's right to exist in secure and recognized borders as a Jewish State, then Israel must treat them simply as Arafatians in suits.

Arabs laughing at Olmert's latest concessions.



Bush would love to convene the summit soon for the reasons already reviewed and for the sake of Republicans running in upcoming elections. Again, with the Mesopotamian mess, it would be nice to point to "success." But until Israel gets leaders who are non-apologetic in resisting suicidal demands America would never consent to itself, Israel must not join planned festivities where it, itself, will likely be offered as the sacrificial lamb.


Recall, above, Arabs laughing at Olmert's latest concessions.


The new Prime Minister must unabashedly proclaim that the issues reviewed above are basic and pertain to Israel's minimal needs for survival - something that an America three thousand miles wide with a population of three hundred million should still be able to understand. Thirty-four Israels fit into the territory of Bush's Texas.


If Israel agrees to attend the summit with Olmert at the helm, then it will simply turn into a gang-up-on-the-Jews exercise in fall foolishness that the Jews will certainly pay for in blood.